Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] GDB 15.1 released!
Stuff Received <[email protected]>
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On 2024-07-11 16:08, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 4:00 PM Stuff Received <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 2024-07-07 14:02, Joel Brobecker via Gdb-announce via Gdb wrote (in >> part): >>> >>> GDB 15.1 released! >>> >>> Release 15.1 of GDB, the GNU Debugger, is now available. GDB is >>> a source-level debugger for Ada, C, C++, Fortran, Go, Rust, and many >>> other languages. GDB can target (i.e., debug programs running on) >>> more than a dozen different processor architectures, and GDB itself >>> can run on most popular GNU/Linux, Unix and Microsoft Windows variants. >> GDB 15.1 successfully builds with GCC-13.3.0 and runs on Solaris 11.3/Sparc. >> >> I was unable to run the testsuite because I could not convince the build >> to use /usr/gnu/bin/ld (or /usr/bin/gld). The variable LD=/usr/bin/gld >> passed to the configure script is ignored. > > Regarding /usr/bin/gld, from <https://gcc.gnu.org/install/specific.html>: > > For linking, the Solaris linker is preferred. If you want to use the > GNU linker instead, the version in Solaris 11.4, from GNU binutils > 2.30.1 or newer (in /usr/gnu/bin/ld and /usr/bin/gld), works, as does > the version from GNU binutils 2.42. However, it generally lacks > platform specific features, so better stay with Solaris ld. To use the > LTO linker plugin (-fuse-linker-plugin) with GNU ld, GNU binutils must > be configured with --enable-largefile. To use Solaris ld, we recommend > to configure with --without-gnu-ld --with-ld=/usr/bin/ld to guarantee > the right linker is found irrespective of the user’s PATH. > > Jeff Jeff: Invoking "gmake check" with the Solaris 11.3 linker causes the following error. libtool: link: /home/build/gcc/13.3.0/bin/gcc -m64 -funwind-tables -frandom-seed=ctesta -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wold-style-definition -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wcast-qual -g -g -O2 -Wl,--compress-debug-sections=zlib-gabi -o ctesta ctesta-btest.o ctesta-testlib.o ./.libs/libbacktrace.a ld: fatal: unrecognized '--compress-debug-sections' cmp-type: zlib-gabi Basically, libtool invokes ld with a gld option. This does not happen with the basic build/install. I built gdb with the Solaris ld. S.